V-3 from Siltbreeze night at the Khyber with Temple of Bon Matin, Strapping Field Hands, Mike Rep and GBV, As far as I remember this was the only time I got to see V-3. Sadly Jim Shepard died on October, 16 1999 in Columbus, Ohio. From the Remembering Jim Shepard site Jim Shepard was a poet, songwriter, musician and producer involved with the Columbus, Ohio bands Vertical Slit, Phantom Limb, V-3 and Ego Summit. – Thanks to Mark Lux for the tapes.
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Did the Fat Albert gang know that Mothra raided their closets? First, A Pixel Vision video of Mothra’s Part of A Note by Michael O’Reilly. Then a Mothra show at the Khyber. In the last two videos Mothra brought up some special guests – The late Wayne Hamilton (of Vibrolux, Rockula, Suffacox) and Mark Lux of at that time Temple of Bon Matin. – Thanks to Mark Lux for the tapes.
Videos
Mothra – Part of A Note Video by Michael O’Reilly
Mothra – Live from the Khyber (with Mark Lux & Wayne Hamilton)
Audio files
01 – Let’s Start A Band
02 – Kings and 100’s
03 – ?
04 – ?
05 – ?
06 – ?
07 – PartOf A Note
08 – You Shook Me All Night Long
Two Temple of Bon Matin shows from the Khyber. One is the Siltbreeze show from 08/07/1993 where they opened for Strapping Field Hands, Mike Rep, Guided By Voices & V3. The other is probably from around the same time. Both are with the Thunder Feedback Confusion lineup of Mark Lux on Bass, Trevor Dixon on Guitar and Ed Wilcox on Drums and vocals. The Siltbreeze video was shot by Rich – Thanks to Mark Lux for the tapes.
Temple of Bon Matin – 08/07/1993 Siltbreeze Show
Temple of Bon Matin – Khyber Philadelphia
Audio files
Temple of Bon Matin – 01 – Siltbreeze Show
Temple of Bon Matin – 02 – Siltbreeze Show
Temple of Bon Matin – 01 – Khyber
Temple of Bon Matin – 02 – Khyber
Video from the first Guided By Voices show in Philadelphia. It was a Siltbreeze night at the Khyber with Temple of Bon Matin, Strapping Field Hands, Mike Rep, GBV and headlining was V3. I’ll put up the video from the other bands as I get it done. GBV along with Pavement where the two bands from the early 90’s that I thought had a really unique sound that I was really into.
From Wikipedia – New York City and Philadelphia were host to Guided by Voices’ return to the live stage (and first shows outside of Ohio) in 1993. At this time, the always-fluid Guided by Voices lineup coalesced around the core of Pollard, guitarists Tobin Sprout and Mitch Mitchell (not to be confused with Jimi Hendrix’s drummer), bassist Dan Toohey, and drummer Kevin Fennell. Sprout, who was briefly featured in an early-’80s
version of the band, had re-joined circa Propeller and soon became Pollard’s primary musical foil, in addition to contributing several of his own songs to the band’s catalog.
The video was shot by Rich – Thanks to Mark Lux for the tape.
Audio files
01 – On The Tundra
02 – My Impression Now
03 – Unleashed! The Large-Hearted Boy
04 – Shocker In Gloomtown
05 – Expecting Brainchild
06 – Break Even
07 – Queen Of Cans And Jars
08 – Postal Blowfish
09 – Stabbing A Star
10 – Weed King
11 – Lethargy
12 – Tractor Rape Chain
13 – Non-Absorbing
14 – Some Drilling Implied
15 – Exit Flagger
Television Personalities – Khyber 4-9-1992
I saw that Dan Treacy who basically is the Television Personalities was in a coma see the article I remembered I had a live tape of them from the Khyber. I haven’t been able to find any updates on his health but hopefully Dan will pull through. I think the tape is from April 9th 1992 but I’m not sure. According to Dan Treacy’s web site Mad Scene opened up for them that night and I also have a live tape of Mad Scene from the Khyber.
For all things Television Personalities check out A Day in Heaven site.
Audio files
01 – Good And Faitful Servant / Very Dark Today
02 – My First Nervous Breakdown
03 – She Can Stop Traffic
04 – She’s Only The Grocer’s Daughter
05 – I Hope You Have A Nice Day
06 – Goodnight Mr Spaceman
07 – Younger Than You Know
08 – Conscience Tells Me No
09 – La Grande Illusion
This is the second band that I have been sent music by a member to put up on this blog. Which I am very happy to do so if any other Philly bands want to be on email me. Here is the info on Rocknoceros.
The band:
Deb – Vocals, is now an artist in St. Louis
Rachel – Backing vocals, is now an artist in Australia
Chris – Drums and backing vocals, is now an artist in NYC and was in The Hunks and Scarpetta after he moved to NYC.
Dan – Guitar, also played in Double Penetration, Cactus Love, The Sinners, and The Illegitimate Sons and Daughters
Tom – Guitar & Bass, also played in Jack Lord’s Hair and Mud Pie and now plays in Mud Pie Sun
Let’s see..there was the story of our tape being mastered. We had recorded it in Tom’s west Phillly basement on a 4 track and sent it to Valley Forge Music for mastering and reproduction. When we didn’t like the dolby they put on it, the president of the company decided he would master it himself. He took one listen and sent the tape back to us saying it was obscene and that he did not want our business! He refused to reproduce it! We were banned!
Tom came to me one day and said “wanna be in a band? i want to put a band together that’s like the punk version of Kiss”. So we always dressed up in crazy outfits. Tom had some sort of lion suit (or something like that!). We played a lot of parties (Funk Dungeon, Rodman St. block party etc…) When we played at Khyber the 1st time, Debbie Katon (our singer) wore this home made bullet bra contraption, like the one Madonna made famous but it was before Madonna did it!
We played at the Fairmount Prison Block party. Mega Jimmy drove us there and when we got there it was full of kids and grandmas and family types. We convinced Deb that we should still play. At one point, a tween girl came up to the stage and yelled at us “CAN YOU TURN DOWN, YOU’RE GIVING EVERYONE A HEADACHE!” There was one teenage boy that loved us though, so it was worth it.
Not much else to say. It was my favorite band that I’ve been in and a lot of fun. I still think that the songs were good. – From Dan
Deb and Chris were art students at PCA so they might have gotten class credit for making Rocknoceros outfits. I remember going to a theatrical costume shop in Philly that had these sales where you could fill a bag with old costumes for five dollars. Dan found a sort of colonial minuteman coat, and I found a leopard suit with the ass torn out and some red lamé fabric that I made pants out of. And I spray painted a pair of platform shoes bright yellow that I nearly broke an ankle on. Chris dressed in total whacked-out drag and even somehow made huge and scary strap-on female genitalia that looked hilarious when he sat down at the drums and hiked up his skirt. – From Tom
Audio files
01 No One
02 Big Cats
03 Sam the Man from Mars
04 Swimming Man
05 Big Balls
06 Zero
07 My Hero Zero
08 Second Skin
09 Start It All Over Again
10 Rocknoceros Theme
11 Call of the Rockno
Beat Happening and two Unrest songs from a show at Maxwell’s – 1991. I’m not sure why I only tapped two Unrest songs my guess is we either got there late or I only had one tape with me. I believe this was the only time I saw Beat Happening – I’m not sure if they ever played Philly (or maybe if they did I just missed them.) Sorry I didn’t have time to figure out the Unrest song titles – if anyone knows please add a comment. (Plus the one Beat Happening title I couldn’t figure out.
Audio files
Beat Happening – 01 – Bad Girl
Beat Happening – 02 – Other Side
Beat Happening – 03 – Revolution Come And Gone
Beat Happening – 04 – Dreamy
Beat Happening – 05 – I’ve Lost You
Beat Happening – 06 – Indian Summer
Beat Happening – 07 – Pocket
Beat Happening – 08
Beat Happening – 09 – Sea Babies
Beat Happening – 10 – Hot Chocolate Boy
Beat Happening – 11 – Me Untamed
Beat Happening – 12 – Red Head Walking
Beat Happening – 13 – Cry For A Shadow
Beat Happening – 14 – Look Around
Unrest – 01
Unrest – 02
Decontrol live video from the West Side Club. They opened for Scream which is also up on the site. This is the last of the Decontrol video and the last of the 80’s Philly bands video that I got from Pete. One last plug if you haven’t yet go download Songs from the Gut The Complete Collection.
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Below the videos are the audio tracks. As usual there were a couple of songs I wasn’t sure of the titles but hopefully I’ll get some help again and I’ll update the post.
Thanks again to Pete at Sounds of Tomorrow. for the beta tapes
Audio files
01 – I Got A Right
02 – 1992
03 – ?
04 – Never Again
05 – Born Too Late
06 – System
07 – Joe Blow
08 – Drunk And Bored
09 – Did You No Wrong
10 – Born To Be Wild
11 – Back From The Grave
12 – Almost Dead
13 – 1992
14 – Fascists
15 – Unseen Enemies
16 – Philly Cops
17 – ?
Mothra easily had the best costumes and 7″ and cd packaging of any Philly bands. Often those kind of things have been used to make up for lets say a lack of talent. But not in the case of Mothra – they had the kitsch of Urge Overkill but musically with more of a 70’s hard rock thing rather than lounge sound. Starting as a three piece with Dan on guitar, Neil on bass & vocals and Rob (Beretta 76, Creem Circus, Blue Train, Rockula, Stinkbomben). Then later adding Chris Hunter (Red Paint People DTO) as a second guitarist.
Audio files
Fun With Felt 7″
01 – Part Of A Note
02 – Film School
Feelin Effervescent 7″
A1 – Almost Heaven
A2 – 14 Greatest
B1 – Let’s Start A Band
Hooked On Hobbit Split 7″
Karl Hendricks Trio – Catch The Wind
Mothra – I Love My Shirt
Leaning On The Fridge cd
01 – Superhero Jim
02 – Sunshine
03 – Hard Candy
04 – I Love My Shirt
05 – Happy Motoring
06 – Hey Jon
07 – Gremlin
08 – 14 Greatest
09 – Part of a Note
10 – Kings and 100’s
11 – Leaning on the Fridge
MediaFire Zip
The tape of this show has no date on it – it just says Sebadoh & Khyber. So, I’m not really sure when it is from. My best guess would be around 1992 – 1994. I’m pretty sure this is the Sebadoh with Lou, Jason and Eric although I could be wrong. My clues are it is not the Kyhber show where the band had a fight on stage and Lou left. Also, the songs are all from up to Bubble and Scrape.
For more on Sebadoh go to http://sebadoh.com.
Just put updates to the song titles Thanks for the comments. Sorry you’ll have to rename the mp3 files yourself.
Audio files
1 – Wonderful Subdivision (Drunks With Guns)
2 – Cliche
3 – Everybody’s Been Burned
4 – Vampire
5 – Homemade
6 – Losercore
7 – Really Insane
8 – Soul And Fire
9 – Forced Love
10 – Junk Bonds
11 – Pink Moon (Nick Drake cover).
12 – Two Years Two Days
13 – Soul And Fire
14 – Mind Meld
15 – Think
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